Teamviewer linux without permanently running daemon

Question

Teamviewer Linux has the annoying property of installing a permanently running daemon. This not only consumes resources but also presents a security risk. You can disable the daemon startup, however then the teamviewer client does not work anymore.

Answer 1

The best way is to enable the daemon before running the teamviewer script and disable it again after the teamviewer client has closed.

The following shell script handles things automatically:

#!/bin/sh
echo starting teamviewer daemon
sudo teamviewer --daemon enable
teamviewer &
wait $!
echo teamviewer finished
sudo teamviewer --daemon disable
echo stopped and disabled teamviewer daemon

Answer 2

The tar package allows to run the TV client without installation and without root privileges.

Answer 3

On ubuntu 18.04, here how I solve this

Stop autostart demon

$sudo systemctl disabled teamviewerd.service

create script /opt/tm.sh

#!/bin/bash pkexec --user root systemctl start teamviewerd.service; /opt/teamviewer/tv_bin/script/teamviewer; pkexec --user root systemctl stop teamviewerd.service;

Set bash script executable

chmod u+x /top/tm.sh

Update de /usr/share/applications/com.teamviewer.TeamViewer.desktop

Exec=/opt/tm.sh

It work perfecly for my needs. I only need to connect to other computer never to mine, so root deamon always running is not needed.

Let's see how it live with update from ppa of Teamviewer

Answer 4

The solution Fedora 30+ is:

# systemctl disable teamviewerd.service
# systemctl stop teamviewerd.service

But don't forget to start the service again in order to get a TeamViewer ID.

# systemctl start teamviewerd.service